Word: droving
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...this battle, victory went to the U.S. forces. But it seems evident that the enemy is growing bigger and bolder. "During the jihad against the Soviets, the fighters were crossing over in threes and fours," says a European diplomat in Kabul, referring to the long guerrilla struggle that finally drove the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan in 1989. Now, says the diplomat, who has access to intelligence reports, "they are coming across in hundreds." The U.N. Security Council met in closed consultations late last week to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. "It is really very bad, much worse than Iraq...
...HAND Dell's first Axim drove down the price of no-frills Pocket PCs. The Axim X3 picks up the pace with a 400-MHz chip, 64 MB of memory and wi-fi for Web surfing at hot spots...
...grocery shop in May, the shutters were still riddled with bullet holes. Back in 1990, Singham's town of Mankulam, in northern Sri Lanka, was caught in the cross fire between Tamil guerrillas and Sri Lanka's predominantly Sinhalese army. After the Tamil fighters retreated, the army drove into Mankulam. Singham knew what was coming next. Pulling down the shutters of his shop, he ran out the back door with his wife and four children, just before bullets and mortar shells burst into every store in the Tamil-dominated village. For the next 13 years, Singham, now a 56-year...
...Wolf Pack’s season-opening tie with Bridgeport on Oct. 10, though he also sustained a bruised chest that night, which caused him to miss the next game. But he returned in time to play well in front of a group of former Harvard teammates who drove up to Lowell to watch him the following weekend...
...Harvard undergraduate drove his car into a corner of Claverly Hall and was taken to the hospital a little after 10 p.m. last night...